Avant-garde (dvd collection)

"Avant-Garde" is a DVD-series with experimental films released by Kino International.

Experimental Cinema of the 1920s and 1930s

"Avant-Garde: Experimental Cinema of the 1920s and 1930s" is a 2-disc, 6-hour DVD collection, released in August 2005 by Kino International which includes the following titles:

*"Le Retour à la Raison" ("Return to Reason") (France, 1923) directed by Man Ray, 2 minutes
*"Emak-Bakia" ("Leave Me Alone") (France, 1926) directed by Man Ray, 16 minutes
*"L'Étoile de Mer" ("The Starfish") (France, 1928) directed by Man Ray, 15 minutes
*"Les Mystéres du Château du Dé" ("The Mysteries of the Chateau of Dice") (France, 1929) directed by Man Ray, 20 minutes
*"Ménilmontant" (France, 1926) directed by Dimitri Kirsanoff, 37 minutes
*"Brumes d'Automne" ("Autumn Mists") (France, 1928) directed by Dimitri Kirsanoff, 12 minutes
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*"Lot in Sodom" (US, 1933) directed by James Sibley Watson and Melville Webber, 27 minutes
*"Rhythmus 21" (Germany, 1921) directed by Hans Richter, 3 minutes
*"Vormittagsspuk" ("Ghosts Before Breakfast") (Germany, 1928) directed by Hans Richter, 9 minutes
*"Anemic Cinema" (France, 1926) directed by Marcel Duchamp, 6 minutes
*"Ballet mecanique" (France, 1924) directed by Fernand Leger, 11 minutes
*"Symphonie Diagonale" (Germany, 1924) directed by Viking Eggeling, 7 minutes
*"Le Vampire" (France, 1939-45) directed by Jean Painlevé, 9 minutes
*"Hearts of Age" (US, 1934) directed by Orson Welles and William Vance, 8 minutes
*"Uberfall" (Germany, 1928) directed by Erno Metzner, 22 minutes
*"La Glace a trois faces" (France, 1927) directed by Jean Epstein, 33 minutes
*"Le Tempestaire" ("The Tempest") (France, 1947) directed by Jean Epstein, 22 minutes
*"Romance Sentimentale" (France, 1930) directed by Sergei Eisenstein and Grigori V. Alexandrov, 16 min.
*"Autumn Fire" (US, 1931) directed by Herman G. Weinberg, 15 minutes
*"Manhatta" (US, 1921) directed by Paul Strand and Charles Sheeler, 25 minutes
*"La Coquille et le Clergyman" ("The Seashell and the Clergyman") (France, 1928) directed by Germaine Dulac, 31 minutes
*"Regen" ("Rain") (Netherlands, 1929) directed by Joris Ivens, 14 minutes
*"H2O" (US, 1929) directed by Ralph Steiner, 12 minutes
*"Even As You And I" (US, 1937) directed by Roger Barlow, Harry Hay, and LeRoy Robbins, 12 minutes

Avant Garde 2 - Experimental Cinema - 1928-1954

On 24 July 2007, Kino International released a second DVD collection of experimental films "Avant-Garde Vol. 2: Experimental Films 1930-1954". This release includes:

*"Geography of the Body" (US, 1943) directed by Willard Maas, 7 minutes
*"The Mechanics of Love" (US, 1955) directed by Willard Maas and Ben Moore, 5 minutes
*"Visual Variations on Noguchi" (US, 1945) directed by Marie Menken, 4 minutes
*"The Potted Psalm" (US, 1946) directed by Sidney Peterson and James Broughton, 18 minutes
*"The Cage" (US, 1947) directed by Sidney Peterson, 28 minutes
*"House of Cards" (US, 1947) directed by Joseph Vogel, 16 minutes
*"Christmas, U.S.A." (US, 1949) directed by Gregory Markopoulos, 13 minutes
*"Adventures of Jimmy" (US, 1950) directed by James Broughton, 10 minutes
*"Interim" (US, 1952) directed by Stan Brakhage, 24 minutes
*"Unglassed Windows Cast a Terrible Reflection" (US, 1953) directed by Stan Brakhage, 29 minutes
*"The Way To Shadow Garden" (US, 1954) directed by Stan Brakhage, 11 minutes
*"The Extraordinary Child" (US, 1954) directed by Stan Brakhage, 13 minutes
*"Rebus-Film Nr. 1" (Germany, 1925) directed by Paul Leni, 15 minutes
*"The Fall of the House of Usher" (US, 1928) directed by James Watson and Melville Webber, 12 minutes
*"Pacific 231" (France, 1949) directed by Jean Mitry, 10 minutes
*"Arrière Saison" (France, 1950) directed by Dimitri Kirsanoff, 15 minutes
*"Traité de Bave et d'Èternité" ("Venom and Eternity") (France, 1951) directed by Jean Isidore Isou, 111 minutes

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